Reports on "Software Type = Patch" or on individual patches

[Sergio Fernandez Marcos]

We need to get reports on installed patches on Windows systems. Patches are not installed using CA Patch Management.

Patches are correctly shown in "Software > Discovered" node, as in this example:

Application Version Software type Definition Source Created
2019-08 Security Only Update - Windows6.1-kb4512486-x64 Patch CA Provided 16/08/2019 4:27:39

The problem is that we cannot find a way to get reports on DSM Reporter on "Software Type = Patch" or reports for individual patches.

We are able to get the installed patches using "Signature Scan [All]", but, in the same report, we also get all discovered software. I know we can filter by "Software Type = Patch", but that only filters the results that are shown, but the report itself contains all discovered software. This is unmanageable when there are many systems in the report.


The other report we would like to get is the installation status for an individual patch. We have tried to find individual patches in "Software > Signature Scan", but it seems there isn't a node for that.

Regards.
Sergio